The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of

Ben Jonson Online jon s on ’s com pl ete w r it ing s

Now in a dynamic digital format

cambridge.org/jonsononline The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, developed

by King's College London Digital Humanities, with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Cambridge University Press.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

jonson ’s com p l ete w r it ing s

Now in a dynamic digital format

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online presents Jonson's complete writings in a dynamic digital format, with an extensive critical and documentary archive.

Explore the life and writings of Shakespeare’s contemporary.

Poet, dramatist, scholar and writer of masques, Ben Jonson wrote for court, playhouse and printing house. He was a major writer of the Renaissance and Shakespeare's greatest contemporary and rival. This new online edition presents Jonson's complete works, alongside a large collection of contextual documents and analytical essays.

Read, compare and analyse Jonson’s Works.

With best-in-class viewing, search and comparison tools, the Online Edition provides an extensive research and reference edition with advanced digital functionality.

KEY FEATURES

 Presents the entire Jonsonian canon, including plays, court masques and entertainments, poems, prose works and letters.

 Provides multiple texts of Jonson's writings in both old spelling and modern spelling.  Digital comparison tool, allowing different versions of transcriptions to be viewed together.  Provides extensive contextual and critical material, including analytical essays, documentary records, music sources, a performance archive and an interactive timeline.  Comprehensive search capabilities, across works, essays, records and reference collections.

Functionality at a glance…

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson includes key areas for  WORKS,  RECORDS,  MUSIC ,  ESSAYS,  REFERENCE,  BLOG.

Works The ‘WORKS’ area is a textual archive which collects together the entire Jonsonian canon, including plays, court masques and entertainments, poems, prose works and letters. This area contains digital images of many of the major manuscripts and the early printed books from which the edited text is derived. It presents transcripts of over 70 old-spelling texts in fully searchable modernized text to be directly compared with its sources. All of the modern-spelling texts include collation and commentary notes.

KEY FUNCTIONALITY Filter works to find titles easily.

KEY FEATURE D ocumentary and contextual archival materials and old-spelling transcriptions alongside modern-spelling texts, with a best-in-class viewing and comparison tool allowing texts to be viewed side by side.

KEY FUNCTIONALITY

S ynchronization, to enable cross-referencing between old-spelling and modern-spelling texts.

KEY FUNCTIONALITY Search within Works section, or across whole edition, to find specific areas of interest.

KEY FEATURE Commentary,  providing annotations, word glossaries, translations, contextual information, and explanations of words and sentences.

KEY FEATURE Collation notes, providing textual variants and information about alternative versions of early Jonson texts.

KEY FEATURE Introductions to individual Works, containing essential information about their dating, sources and interpretation.

KEY FEATURE Digital images of the early printed books and the most important manuscripts.

Masque of Blackness MS: British Library Royal MS 17. B XXXI. Reproduced by permission of The British Library, Š The British Library.

Records The ‘RECORDS’ area provides a large-scale collection of documentary and archival materials, including Life records and Masque records.

Life records ›› The Life records area contains most of the surviving documents relating to Jonson’s biography, freshly transcribed and edited in old spelling. It also has a selection of early lives of Jonson written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

KEY FUNCTIONALITY

Filter by Editor, Type, Keyword, Date.

Masque records ›› The Masque records area contains transcripts of all the contextual documentation relating to performances of the masques, such as extracts from the court’s financial accounts, eyewitness testimony, ambassadors’ reports, and other miscellaneous commentary. The extracts are edited in old spelling, with fresh translations of the French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch documents.

music The ‘MUSIC ’ area comprises a complete critical edition of the music associated with Jonson, and an introductory essay.

This includes collation and commentary and midi capable audio.

KEY FEATURE

Audio clips including songs from the plays, poems, and masques, and dance tunes that can with reasonable confidence be linked to the masques.

essays The ‘ESSAYS’ section provides in-depth critical essays of Jonson’s works. This includes analysis of textual variants, treatment of the relationship between the various print and (where available) manuscript witnesses, as well as contextual analysis of the history and reception and the works. The section comprises ‘Stage History’ essays and ‘Textual’ essays.

Reference The ‘REFERENCE’ area includes a Bibliography providing an extensive list of books and essays relating to Jonson, as well as all works cited in the edition commentary. It also provides a Performance Archive and a Timeline of Jonson’s life and times.

Bibliograpy ››

Performance Archive ››

Timeline ›› KEY FEATURE

Interactive chronology.

BLOG Blog ›› The 'BLOG' area includes news and updates from the Ben Jonson editorial team.

Praise for the print edition: 'The combined forces of thirty leading scholars in drama, poetry, textual criticism and manuscript studies have resulted in the best edition of a Renaissance dramatist in our time.’

Brian Vickers, Time Literary Supplement 'A cause for celebration' Andrew Hadfield, Daily Telegraph '. . . [a] formidable enterprise . . . There would have to be either a transformation of our mental world beyond present imagination, or some sensational textual discovery before anyone could think it necessary to edit Jonson again.'

Blair Worden, London Review of Books Print edition: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 7 Volume Hardback Set ISBN: 978-0-521-78246-3

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llustrations used in this leaflet: Inigo Jones drawings: Three Fays from Oberon and Proscaenium and Hunt Scene from Pan’s Anniversary. Images number 66 and 110, in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court. Š Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.

Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.

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